The league will tweak the rules on chop blocks and horse collars and institute an automatic ejection for players who get two personal fouls in single game, but no changes are coming on how to determine whether or not a player caught a football.

It is the baseball equivalent of losing American Gothic. Misplacing the master tape of Springsteen's Born to Run . Suddenly being unable to locate the Empire State Building or the Washington Monument...

For reasons having nothing to do with the summer solstice, Sunday will feel like the longest day of the year for the last group to tee off at Chambers Bay Golf Course. From first light to first drive, the hours stretch before the 54-hole leaders like a gangplank leading from familiar shores to the great unknown.

The Golden State Warriors are facing a 2-1 hole after losing two consecutive games to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. This might be cause for concern in the case of most teams, but the Warriors aren't most teams.

(CBS) Amid civil unrest in Baltimore, Wednesday’s game between the White Sox and Orioles at Camden Yards has been moved to a 1:05 p.m. CT/2:05 p.m. ET start and will be closed to the public, the Orioles announced Tuesday. The game had been scheduled for Wednesday night.

This is a real shame. I feel terrible for all of the regular, hard working people in Baltimore who are suffering because of what a few trouble makers are doing.

It wasn't supposed to be a banner year for the New York Knicks. After finishing 37-45 last season, no one was expecting the Knicks to contend for a trip to the NBA Finals, but no one was expecting this, either. The Knicks lost their 60th game on Saturday, falling to the Chicago Bulls, 111-80. The defeat set the franchise record for losses in one season.

Jane Helser recently retired from working at the Wilson Sporting Goods factory in Ada, Ohio, where employees accustomed to precise specifications see the Patriots’ deflation scandal as a distant issue.

Did you know that these things were hand sewn??? I didn't. This woman sewed balls for Wilson since the 60s. Everyone from Johnny Unitas to Tom Brady used them. That is amazing, she should be in the hall of fame!

You've probably heard the old anti-Semitic joke about the invention of copper wire coming as a result of dropping a penny between two Jews. If you haven't, San Diego Chargers radio analyst Hank Bauer is here to tell it to you.

Unbelievable...it is amazing that this wasn't a huge national story, but somehow the same things that would be huge if it was about many other ethnicities do not seem to fly when it's about us.

"If the referee goes by the rule book now, there will be nobody left to play the hockey game." — Bill Chadwick, New York Rangers television analyst

The ice at the Forum was so crowded that night in 1981, it looked like the rink at New York's Rockefeller Center in December. This, though, was far from a "If the referee goes by the rule book now, there will be nobody left to play the hockey game." — Bill Chadwick, New York Rangers television analyst

NEW YORK — The jersey worn by hockey great Mike Eruzione in the U.S. Miracle on Ice victory over the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics was auctioned for almost $660,000 Saturday, though surprising strong interest in the stick he used to score

Anyone who remembers this will understand EXACTLY why it sold for so much.

If you had a Heisman Trophy vote, which player would top your ballot? A record-setting freshman? A game-changing defender? A steady senior dual-threat? SI.com wants to know. Cast your vote in our annual People's Heisman poll to have your voice heard. Just like on the actual Heisman ballot, SI.com's People's Heisman ballot awards three points for a first-place vote, two points for a second-place vote and one point for a third-place vote. Make your picks by�11:59 p.m.�on Thursday and be sure to check back on Friday, Dec. 7, to see which player earned America's support.

Rover, the online platform dedicated to connecting dog-owners with a range of services including walkers, has raised $65 million in a round of funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from Menlo Ventures, Foundry Group, Omers Ventures, Technology

Channel your inner Don Draper. So many people think ‘sales’ is a dirty word. It shocks me really. There are so many negative associations with sales and even a sales person that tend to make people think to themselves, “I could never do that,” or “that’s just not me”.

There’s nothing quite as heart-stopping as a notice from the IRS. Sometimes it’s to raise a question about an item on your return; other times you may get a notice that you owe money. If you’re really unlucky, you may find out the IRS is auditing your return.

Among the very wealthy, family foundations long have been a common vehicle for charitable giving. However, more families than ever are skipping foundations altogether in favor of simpler and cheaper donor-advised funds.

Amid an opioid epidemic, the rise of deadly synthetic drugs and the widening legalization of marijuana, a curious bright spot has emerged in the youth drug culture: American teenagers are growing less likely to try or regularly use drugs, including alcohol.

Cell phone use is obviously really ubiquitous among teens. Whether it is causing the falling rate of drug use among teens is an interesting idea.

Microsoft really really wants you to have the most up-to-date version of Windows available. There are some great reasons for this, including timely security updates and patches that prevent bad actors from exploiting known holes, but it always seems like

Israel's Cellebrite, a provider of mobile forensic software, is helping the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's attempt to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The highly anticipated Apple Watch carries forward many Apple traditions, including a new input method, but doesn't break with the industry in a way that raises industry angst and eyebrows. It's thinking different, but not divisive.

If you’re starting a business, there are some functions you just can’t afford to be without. You need a social media presence, to help people find out about you, talk to you, rate you and tell other people, for that … →

By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - Witnessing friends' vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers. A study conducted jointly by two German uni

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) When Amazon refreshed its Kindle lineup for the holiday season a few weeks back, CEO Jeff Bezos made clear what everyone has known since the Fire came out last year: It's not a money maker at the prices Amazon charges. "Basically, we sell [...]

“Senator McCain looks forward to returning to the United States Senate tomorrow to continue working on important legislation, including health care reform, the National Defense Authorization Act, and new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea,"

Interesting article about the power of fake news. It also gives some decent advice on how to determine what's fake in terms of photojournalism. The problem is that the people who accept fake news as real, do so because they want to believe that it is real. Therefore, the people who need to read articles like this one probably won't.

Election hacks and Russia-friendly nominees pose historic choice of party or principle.

"Imagine that we live in an alternative universe in which Hillary Clinton won the presidential election after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hacked her opponent. Imagine, further, that it emerged after the vote that not only had the Iranians hacked the Republican high command and released a batch of embarrassing emails, but they also had hacked Clinton and kept the results confidential."

The alt-right, an extremist fringe popular with white supremacists, has celebrated the election of Donald J. Trump, and now hopes to have the ear of his White House.

These are the most vile people on the planet and they love the president-elect.

"Mr. Spencer suggested that the news media had been critical of Mr. Trump throughout the campaign in order to protect Jewish interests. He mused about the political commentators who gave Mr. Trump little chance of winning."

At one of the most explosive moments of the campaign — and with a month to go — Politico Magazine reconvened the top Trumpologists to dissect The Donald’s final days as a presidential candidate and what comes next.

This was written by Trump's biographers. Not that that will make a difference to his supporters.

You may think you are discreet about your political views. But Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, has come up with its own determination of your political leanings, based on your activity on the site.

Yuval Rabin, whose father, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated while serving as Prime Minister of Israel, criticized Donald Trump for appealing to "Second Amendment people" in a speech and warned that the words that politicians use can incite violence and und

"Intentional or not, the Republican presidential nominee is removing confidence in the democratic form of governance. If an election is seen as illegitimate, if those who supported a candidate are viewed as somehow lesser 'Americans,' then it becomes acceptable — and even appropriate — to work outside the political system," he warned.

Fifty of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter declaring that Donald J. Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” to be president and “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.”

Dozens of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter saying they will not vote for Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee.

What could President Obama have been thinking when he claimed that Israel’s “military and security community” now supports his disastrous nuclear deal with Iran? “The country that was most opposed …

So that was just an egregiously untrue lie.

"Israel’s Defense Ministry, in an official statement, compared the deal to the infamous 1938 Munich accord, whose “basic assumption, that Nazi Germany could be a partner to any kind of agreement, was wrong."

FOX News' Bret Baier said the Democratic party would "not go down" the road of making a connection between Russia and Donald Trump, but on Monday's Special Report conservative columnist George Will said the Republican nominee for president may n

A deep dive by USA TODAY shows how Trump amassed thousands of lawsuits over three decades, unprecedented for a presidential nominee.

The excuse that "all businessmen get sued" is getting thin. If you do the reasercj, you will find that Trump is, far and away, involved in more lawsuits than any other person in his class of wealth. As conservatives, I thought that one of the things we opposed was gratuitous litigiousness? He is a poster boy for it.

Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES . Donald Trump appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday night on ABC, and both made and sparked news. For one thing, he challenged Senator Bernie Sanders to a debate. Shortly afterward, Bernie accepted the challenge and Tweeted abou

Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers preve

This should be obvious to anyone who uses Facebook even sporadically. They shouldn't be suppressing any news, liberal or conservative.

Reporters, particularly the female kind, get a daily lashing from the billionaire candidate.

It is a sad commentary on much of America that this classless man is the front runner of any party. He appeals to the ugliest impulses of some Americans. I understand the anger that drives his appeal, but we're not, or we weren't, a nation driven by anger.

According to the father of the San Bernardino terrorist, Syed Rizwan Farook, his son was “obsessed with Israel.” In an interview in the Italian newspaper La Stampa, the senior Syed Farook said, “My son said that he shared [Islamic State leader] Al B

Another incredibly insightful column by Prager.

"There is no greater predictor of violence than Jew-hatred. It predicts violence as accurately as does animal torture.

But while it is universally acknowledged that childhood torture of animals predicts violence, relatively few people understand that the same holds true of Jew-hatred."

Mr. Trump used personal ties, and some stereotyping, to appeal to Jewish Republican donors, and claimed he could revive peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in six months, tops.

He is as patronizing as they come. I will not be voting for his man.

"You’re not going to support me, even though you know I’m the best thing that could ever happen to Israel. And I’ll be that. And I know why that is: You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money.”

For over half a century, American universities, with few exceptions, have ceased teaching and begun indoctrinating. In the past few weeks, this downhill spiral has accelerated. The university is now a caricature of an educational institution.

President Obama is doubling down on his Friday morning statement that “we have contained” ISIS in the wake of the group's deadly attacks in Paris.

His speech was the meandering fantasy of an egomaniac. ISIS is contained? Really? If it was virtually anyone else, they would at least tacitly admit that they were wrong and it's time to change our strategy. Not this guy. I am sure the French are happy to know that ISIS is contained. The left made the same point about the Germans in the 1930s.

I want to explain why I am in Israel. I am in here with 450 American (and a German and a Canadian) listeners to my radio show. About 400 are non-Jews. We are here on a “Stand with Israel” tour organized by the syndicator of my radio show, the Salem Ra

I agree completely. If you want to do something important: go to Israel. There is literally nowhere else like it on Earth. If you care about history, society, culture or almost anything else that couches on Western Civilization, you need visit.

The Fox News host’s book “Killing Reagan” is nonsensical history. Donald Trump is just one symptom of today’s cultural pathology of self-validating vehemence with blustery certitudes substituting for evidence. Another is the fact that the book atop the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list is a tissue of unsubstantiated assertions.

The fact that neither author did any research at the Reagan library or interviewed any of Reagan's top aides is a problem. IF O' Reilly took on the criticism of his book in a fact based way, versus just loudly insisting that anyone who criticizes the book has an agenda, he would have FAR more credibility. So you have to assume that he is not doing that because he can't.

For any Democrat anxious to see the unpopular Iran nuclear agreement fade from public view between now and November 2016, it's been a rough couple of weeks.

"The advocacy group J Street, which ran ads in favor of the nuclear deal leading up to the Senate vote, agreed that the ICBM test was a “gratuitous violation of a U.N. Security Council Resolution” but insisted that it did not breach the JCPOA itself."

These people are SO short sighted it is AMAZING. Really J Street? You didn't see this coming??? How do groups like this have a shred of credibility with anyone? The judgement of any group that advocated the deal should be called into question.

The invective against Dr. Ben Carson coming from the left is extraordinary, even for the left. Now that Carson, one of the pre-eminent brain surgeons in America, has become a viable candidate for president, the left has labelled him everything awful it ca

This is an excellent article by the always excellent Dennis Prager explaining the (irrational) depths of the Left's hatred of Ben Carson.

Does Team Obama want more Palestinian attacks on Israelis? Secretary of State John Kerry sure gives that impression. Wednesday saw more bloodletting: An Arab stabbed a 70-year-old woman as she boar...

This is one of the best recent commentaries on Israel I have read.

"Then, on Tuesday, he actually suggested it was Israel’s fault: “There has been a massive increase in settlements over the course of the last years,” he said. “And there’s an increase in the violence because there’s this frustration that’s growing.”

Ironically, on the day Kerry spoke, the left-wing newspaper Haaretz reported there’s been less settlement-building since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office than under any of his predecessors since the Palestinian Authority’s birth in 1995."

In September 2015, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton styles herself as a staunch defender of gay rights — particularly gay parental rights. “I’m proud of you!” she told a gay man last April, after he explained how he and his partner had adopted a little girl together.

She is one of the most blatantly hypocritical people I have ever encountered in public life.

When Washington’s education bureaucracy comes under political attack, it’s common to pin responsibility for its existence on Jimmy Carter. He signed legislation to establish the Department of Education in 1979, and critics note that this imposed a new department on a country that had gotten along quite well without one for more than 200 years.

There is a VERY string argument to be made that kids would be better off if educational goals and standards were created, and controlled, locally.

In the past week, two television reporters in Roanoke, Va. -- Alison Parker and Adam Ward -- were murdered by a black man who hated whites, and a white police officer in Houston -- Darren Goforth -- was murdered by a black man. Neither crime has been labe

I don't agree with Prager on everything, but I agree with him on this. It is astonishing how differently the right views evil than the left. The left sees racism under every rock, but acts as though it does not exist outside of their narrowly defined parameters. Evil is evil and we must confront it no matter where it originates.

Barack Obama will leave his party in its worst shape since the Great Depression—even if Hillary wins. As historians begin to assess Barack Obama’s record as president, there’s at least one legacy he’ll leave that will indeed be historic—but not in the way he would have hoped.

The news coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton is very telling at the moment as the Democratic presidential forerunner faces inquiries about her private email system while she was secretary of state, amid some unstable favorability numbers.

At American University last week, President Barack Obama gave a vigorous defense of the Iran nuclear agreement. In the belief that every student who was present — indeed, all Americans — should hear the other side, here are responses to claims the pre

This is one of Dennis' most important columns about one of the president's least intellectually honest speeches. Please read it to understand the difference between logic, facts and truth and what is essentially a list of platitudes.

Many countries have nuclear weapons, and many more want them. Only one, though, has its neighbors and the world terrified. That country is Iran. Why is everyone so concerned? Because the Islamic theocracy has repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel, spons

This deal is the most obviously egregious foreign policy mistake in my lifetime. Please watch this excellent video to understand why the majority of Americans oppose this dangerous agreement.

An investigation may have found evidence a top State Department aide to Hillary Clinton took advantage of government employment rules with potential conflicts of interest and overpayments. In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday, Sen. Chuck

I don't trust Huma Abedin at all. She and her boss are very similar though.

'Some of the six states participating in negotiations are not trustworthy at all,' the Ayatollah wrote in a letter to Obama posted on Twitter 8 minutes after his press conference ended.

There is no universe in which this is a good deal. The fact that the Iranians are already mocking us is an indication that for the Iranian regime at least, the United States isn't to be taken seriously. It would be hard to argue that they don't have some good reasons to feel that way right now.

Probably the scariest sentence in the Bible, and maybe in all of Western literature, comes early in Exodus. “Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.” It suggests how era changes to era, way leads to way, evening darkens to nig

I am not Barack Obama's biggest fan and I did not vote for him twice (as did the author). That said, I think that most of this article is very insightful.

Only one-in-three Americans knows how many women serve on the Supreme Court, but 91 percent can identify Martin Luther King Jr., 47 years after his assassination. That’s according to the latest Pew Research Center News IQ survey released Tuesday, which

From Yahoo News: Hundreds of Iranians took to the streets in Tehran early Friday to celebrate a breakthrough in talks with the West that may end the country's 12-year-long nuclear crisis. The capital's longest street, Val-e-Asr Avenue, was lined with cars

So they are dancing in the streets because....they are happy that they will finally have a nearly endless supply of energy? I don't think so.

The Israeli prime minister gave a powerful speech and raised the bar on an Iran deal.

"What Netanyahu did Tuesday was raise the bar for Obama. Any deal that the administration signs will have to address the concerns Netanyahu voiced. Given what’s at stake in the Middle East, that’s probably a good thing. As administration officials said at the outset of negotiations, no deal is better than a bad one."

At Tuesday's press briefing, White House mouthpiece Josh Earnest said something disgusting — I don’t know how else to describe it — about the massacre at the Hyper Casher kosher supermarket in Pari...

I couldn't agree more. Any lingering belief I had that these people were capable of doing the job are gone. This whole episode was this administration in microcosm for me. There is no humility here. His words were insulting and wrong and the administration mouthpieces have a "defend our guy at any cost" mentality. That comes from the top. It insulted my intelligence.

Teenage girls are the West’s center of gravity: Virtually all of Western pop culture, the key to our soft power, is tailored to the tastes of teenage girls. Through the wonders of information technology, the mobile phone mass-produced the mores and habi

I rarely agree with articles in Tablet, but I agree with this. This is a great insight into why ISIS has become so popular in Europe.

The latest strategy employed by those who wish to strangle Israel is called BDS. It may sound harmless, but do not be fooled. It stands for Boycott, Divestment�and Sanctions, and not only is it poisonous for Israel, but for the world as well. Israel is on

On Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry told the Trilateral Commission that Israel would turn into “an apartheid state” unless it made concessions to the Palestinians – the same Palestinians who just signed a peace deal between the Palestinian Auth

News: Residents of Arab triangle communities see FM's land swap plan as unrealistic. If proposal approved most would move to other cities in country: 'The population won't agree to give up their citizenship'

Shouldn't this be obvious? Why would anyone who lives in a Democracy, and can vote and determine their own destinies want to live under fanatics and despots? Why don't more people get this? Arabs in Israel sit in the Knesset (the parliament). How many Jews would sit in the government of an Arab state? The answer is none.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris participates in TheWrap President Obama assessed the beauty of California’s attorney general Kamala Harris, calling her “the best looking attorney general,” during remarks at a fundraiser in Athe

Ray Allen at the entrance of Auschwitz. (Image by Elan Kawesch) Last December, retired NBA champion Ray Allen was named a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by then-President Barack Obama. Allen said he was honored to be named to the o

I think this is a great story. The world needs more people like Ray Allen.

Expletive-laden book titles, some with strategically placed asterisks, are proliferating in cookbooks, memoirs, self-help guides, even coloring books for grown-ups—presenting challenges for bookstores and reviewers.

I am not a fan of this trend. I think it is a symptom of the increasing classlessness of our society. It also reflects the much talked about "dumbing down" of American society. People no longer want to have to think of more expressive ways to describe things. And, using expletives (which I use all in my private life) have replaced any attempt to truly be cutting edge. Lastly, it is another brick removed from the barrier that used to determine public vs private.

Projected Keyboards have been around for a very long time, and yet they still have the 'It's the fuuutuuuure' vibe for me even though I realise they're probably not the most practical solution. The practical side of my brain shuts off when it's R2-D2 proj

I keep hearing that projected keyboards don't work that well, but if this one does, I think I want one.

On any given night there're plenty of types of terrible people in bars, but New Year's Eve is a special powder keg of people-watching. Whether you're at a pub, restaurant, or old-fashioned house party, it's amateur hour all night long, and even teetotalers are downing bottomless cups of the most intoxicating spirit of all: new beginnings.

One of the scientists responsible for successfully landing the Rossetta probe on a comet millions of miles away on Friday responded to outrage directed at a shirt he wore earlier this week during the televised landing. “I made a big mistake and I offend

I’ve read some heavy-duty attacks on Israel and Jews in my time, but they pale beside the anti-Semitic diatribe recently offered by Roger Waters, co-founder and former front man of the legendary British rock band Pink Floyd. In an interview with Counter

Roger Waters is a morally bankrupt human being who is willing to engage in the worst type of lies and revisionism in the service of his anti-Jewish feelings. For the naive out there, if you don't believe that anti-Semitism is still alive and well (and a serious threat) just read the comments on the article. Nothing, NOTHING, has changed since the Shoah (the Holocaust).

(TruthSeekerDaily) Sir Nicholas Winton organized the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport. After the war

You know why Barack Obama is having problems executing his agenda? Rapper Kanye West told 105.1 FM radio in New York City earlier this week that it’s because “Black people don't have the same level of connections as Jewish people” (video follows wit

A poll of European Jews has found that more than three-quarters of those questioned believe anti-Semitism is on the rise in their home countries and close to one-third have considered emigrating because they don't feel safe.

The thing about science and technology is that what's cutting edge today is quickly replaced tomorrow. And that's a good thing — constantly pushing the envelope to build better, more brilliant machines will power us into the future. To celebrate the next chapter in General Electric's Brilliant Machines story, head back in time and see just how far we've come since 1985.

What are the United States' best regional foodstuffs? Its worst? These are the questions that bedevil the mind of man--but no longer! For here, we have ranked them. Rigorously scientific (not), ardently researched (nope), and scrupulously fair (not ev

There are depressing moments. There are dark places. And then there's being a 31-year-old man carefully stacking Sour Patch Kids on the kitchen counter in a silent apartment at 2:00am. To understand...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Israeli advisors were reported to be helping Kenya's government try to free hostages held by terrorist gunmen in an upscale shopping mall, after an attack that killed at least 59 people and wounded 175, but President Uhuru Kenyatta said

This is the difference between a society centered on positive action and one centered on death and destruction. Israel is ALWAYS there in times of tragedy.

If we had enough time, enough brain power, the right computers, the occasional genius, is there any limit to what we can know about the universe? Or is nature designed to keep its own secrets, no matter how hard we try to crack the code? What can we never

It’s no secret that women can have a hard time breaking into the tech sector. But when Nofar Diamant and Dana Gutkind interviewed for their jobs at Perion Network, a Holon, Israel-based technology company, they were snapped up immediately.

Ever since date rape drugs have become easily accessible, women have had to be on high alert when drinking in public as someone could easily slip an odorless and tasteless drug such as GHB into their drink.

This is an older one, but it's worth reminding people that it comes from Israel.

An Israeli company has developed a teeth-straightening device that frees patients from having to wear aligners or unsightly braces. The device, which they say is as effective as conventional straighteners, utilises an air-driven pulsating plate a...